Word: austria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virtually ignored by the U. S. press, the Galveston tournament was Big News elsewhere in the world. In Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, editors frantically cabled for longer and faster reports on just what Miss France, Miss Spain, Miss Austria, Miss Brazil were doing, wearing, saying at each instant of the final ceremony. U. S. reporters endeavored to supply the demand. In the Galveston City Auditorium behind the horseshoe platform on which the beauties paraded, were a dozen correspondents and as many telegraph operators. Minute by minute the correspondents dictated their stories. Sample dictation...
...MISS AUSTRIA WINS 6 to 1 STOP MISS AUSTRIA DARK CHESTNUT HAIR GREYISH BLUE EYES OUT STANDING FEATURE IS THE UNSURPASSED ARISTOCRACY OF HER MIEN STOP HER BEAUTY BEST DESCRIBED AS ETHEREAL...
...Miss Austria's beauty gives me an impression of holiness, something not be longing to this world...
...number of students enrolled in the School was 751, representing 169 colleges in the United States, besides 27 colleges abroad,--in Hawaii 1; the Philippines, 3; Austria, 1; Canada, 5; Egypt, 1; England, 3; France, 4: Hungary, 1; Japan, 3; Russia, 1; Sweden. 1; Switzerland, 2; Turkey, 1. Harvard College sent 112 students; Yale, 35; University of California, 26; Stanford University, 24; Dartmouth College, 22; Princeton University, 21; Williams College, 18; Brown University, 16; Bowdoin College, 15; and Massachusetts institute of Technology, 14. Students registered from 43 states, the District of Columbia, Hawall, the Philippines, and 19 foreign countries...
Author Redlich, Moravian born, practiced law in Vienna, sat for twelve years in Austria's Parliament, and was appointed in 1918 Minister of Finance for old Austria. At present professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard Law School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...